Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-13
A PEEP At The PRESIDENT.
The Bluff1tes Have to Scramble to
Get Even This.
SEWERAGE ORDINANCE NEEDED
The Pacc-HuntingtOn Wedding Last
Night-MOrse's Second Trial
Points Personal and
Pithy.
Cleveland I'm the Bluffs.


gathered about the Northwestern depot
yesterday morning, waiting for the
presidential train TO come rolling in.
There were carriages and buggies, ex-
press wagons and trucks, besides sew
eral thousand people on foot. packed in
as closely rs herring. Every elevation
from beer lieg on end to house roof,
was speedily taken possession of. The
crowd waited good naturedly. although
it was understood that at the best they
could only have a glimpse of President
Cleveland and his wife. The chances
were against all Of them getting this
much satisfaction even. Still they
stood and waited.
They were rewarded by a partial graf
ificatiOn of their curiosity. On the az
rival of the train President Cleveland
stepped out upon the rear platform and
stood with uncovered head, bowing and
smiling. Soon Mrs. Cleveland appeared
ut the doorway, and had hardly crossed
the threshold. when the presence of the
Omaha committee was evidently an
nounced. they having entered from the
other end of the car. MIR. and Mrs.
Cleveland disappeared for II moment,
but soon rcappeared with Mayor Grone-
veg, of this city, who stood beside the
president on the platform as the train
steamed Off again at slow rate of speed
for the transfer. The train stopped so
short time and the crowd was so
great that many of those who had stood
for an hour or more got only a far-away
glimpse after all.
The time was so short for the satisfy
ing of the curiosity that little thought
or enthusiasm was devoted to applause
or cheering welcome.
One of the most enthusiastic of the
crowd was a tall, lean, sickly looking
man. who elbowed his way by all human
obstacles and forced himself into posi-
tion where he could hang onto the rail
of the rear platform with one hand,
while with the other he protfered the
president piece of paper. . | am the
man." he shouted, who took pity on
you when heard last winter that YOU
were suffering with the rheumatism
and sent you a charmed letter. which
cured you. Here's my card The
president smiled and thanked him. took
the paper, and as the train
moved off it was dropped by the way
side. 1t was an ordinary piece of paper.
torn from some memoranda book. APP
parently. and upon it was written in
lead pencil. wv. |. White cures all
manner of diseases. with charm. at 1913
Eighth street. corner of Seventeenth
avenue. Council Bluffs, Ia After
wards the charmcr explained to an in
quisitive BEE repOrtea that he had
wrought Il marvel in Cleveland's case.
for by the charm he had sent him last
winter the president had been cured
n nj al "A hot hn oil
ment would never trouble him again.
All the healer had to do was to spit
upon letter and send it to the presi
dent. The wonderful cure-all declares
that he gets his power from a planet
near the sun, the name of which he
does not know, but he believes IT is the
Star of Bethlehem.
AS the train slowly pulled out for the
transfer crowd of boys hung onto the
rear platform as best they could, while
others joined in IA free-for-all race in
the rear. Mrs. Cleveland smiled to see
Young America, including, possibly,
some future presidents of the United
States, in such a scramble to keep up
with the train, and with the boquet
which she held in her hand she shook
u warning to them, lest some should get
hurt. Mayor Groneweg improved the
opportunity of telling the president
| that he could see little or nothing of
Council Bluffs, as the city lay away
from the depot, and expressed the re-
gret that his stay was so short. Presi-
dent Cleveland replied that he could
| Judge somewhat from the crowd which
| had gathered that there must be a
| pretty good sized city here to send
forth so goodly delegation.
| 1t was almost a scratch that ever
| Mayor GrOneweg was given this much
of IA chance to welcome the president in
behalf of Council Bluffs. When the
train rolled in he was standing with
Postmaster Bowman, where u speedy
entrance to the car was favorably pre-
sented. The mayor improved the op-
portunity, but as he stepped in the door
was closed, and the democratic post
master, who also has the only demo
cratic paper in the city, was barred out
Such was the history of Presiden,
Cleveland's visit to this city, or more
popularly, the trip through it. At the
transfer there was another large crowd
many of them Council Bluffs people
while many others had gone over tc
Omaha to see him there, if possible.